Key Objectives

Upon completing this chapter you should be able to:

Distinguish dualism from materialism, idealism, and other alternative views.

Explain Descartes' doubting methodology and his "epistemological detour".

Explain Descartes' "clear and distinct" litmus test for truth.

Explain why Descartes believes there are two distinct substances and how he distinguishes between them.

Explain the problems facing dualism.

Describe Hobbes' materialism and his materialist psychology.

Explain the problems facing materialism.

Describe the alternative metaphysics of Conway and Spinoza and explain some of the important implications of each.

Describe Lockes's "representative realist" theory of perceptioin.

Explain Berkeley's objections to representative realism.

Describe Berkeley's reasons for rejecting matter.

Explain Berkeley's version of idealism.

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